The Hanging Gardens
An Ancient Wonder of the World
5 min readMar 27, 2018
The Ancient Wonders of the World included the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Great Pyramids of Giza, and even the Hanging Gardens, among others. The thing is that unbeknownst to many the Hanging Gardens weren’t actually in Babylon, they were really in Nineveh. In 1969 a CIA satellite captured images of the remnants of an ancient network of canals in northern Iraq, close to…
